Oregon W Emerald
MARJORIE M. GOODWIN
EDITOR
ELIZABETH EDMUNDS
BUSINESS MANAGER
MARJORIE YOUNG
Managing Editor
ROSE ANN LECKIE
Advertising Manager
ANNE CRAVEN
News Editor
Norris Yates, Joanne Nichols
Associate Editors
EDITORIAL BOARD
Edith Newton
y.-j)
lirley Stcanrs, Executive Secretary
laun McDermott, Warren Miller
Army Co-editors
Dob Stiles, Sports Editor
Carol Greening, Betty Ann Stevens,
Co-Women’s Editors
Bill Bindley, Staff Photographer
Carol Cook, Chief Night Editor
Published daily during the college year except Sundays, Mondays, and holidays ana
final examination periods by the Associated Students, University of Oregon.
Entered as second-class matter at the postofficer Eugene, Oregon. _
Wartime Wedding . . .
“A Love and Marriage series! I never heard of anything
so silly !’ exclaimed the freshman. “Why do they have that? ’
Rut listen . . .
The bride’s tearfully smiling mother is escorted to her
seat by a khaki-clad young usher. A tenor, wearing navy blues,
thrills his feminine hearers with his tenderly ardent ‘‘Because
God made thee mine I'll cherish thee.” The strains of Lohengrin
swell from the organ, and the bridesmaids, stepping in the
traditional hesitating pace of wedding processions, start down
the aisle as the bridegroom and his best man await them at the
altar. The bride, radiantly beautiful (all brides are beautiful,
someone told us once), walks with a stately yet eager step
toward her waiting soldier-husband-to-be. The minister prays,
utters a few words, vows are exchanged, and the fateful pro
nouncement is made. Then, to the jubilant music of Mendels
sohn’s “Wedding March,” the newly-weds go back down the
aisle to receive the congratulations and best wishes of their
friends and relatives.
And another wartime wedding has taken place. In the
space of a few brief minutes, two lives have been joined together
until death do them part ... or have they? At any rate,
however long or short the period of their joining together may
be, they have been joined—for a while, at least.
There will be those among the well-wishers who, after
they have left the church, will shake their heads sadly and
murmur a hope that “it turns out all right.” There will be
others who will watch in wonder as the young couple leaves
for a 24-hour honeymoon, and say in amazed admiration, ‘‘I
don’t see how those kids have the nerve.”
There are lots of shortages these days, but nerve isnt one
of them.
But nerve alone is not enough for a lifelong, happy mar
riage. There must be a lot of other things besides, things
which people sometimes forget to consider in the bustle and
rush of wartime weddings. The things which go to make up a
happy marriage arc so numerous and so important that eminent
men give all their lives to the study of love, marriage, and the
family. They are not doing so for reasons of personal sentiment
or romance, but because they believe that the home is one of
the primary, fundamental elements in the development of
American citizenship.
Are wartime marriages wrong? Should young people mar
ry in wartime? Should a wife follow her husband to camp?
Should she get a job, or try to make a home for her husband
while he is in this country? What about children? Should the
bride continue to live with her own family, if she had been
doing so, or should she establish a home of her own—alone—■
where she can wait for her husband? Are marriages consumated
after a few days’ acquaintance amid the infectious fever of
other hasty weddings to be counted as real marriages? Is it
marriage to meet, marry, and part in the space of a few weeks?
Should engaged couples postpone marriage for the dura
tion ?
In bull sessions and hen sessions students at Oregon have
asked, discussed, and argued these questions. Now, at the Love
and Marriage series, they will further clarify the questions and
discuss possible answers. Only by means of such serious
thought, discussion, and gravely-weighed decision can students
solve the personal problems they will meet in their postwar
lives. —J. N.
The University of Minnesota Memorial Stadium got its
start when a cheerleader passed the hat at a football game,
asking the crowd to help pay for a huge stadium to be erected
in honor of the Minnesota men who, at that time were fighting
in World War I.
When a new fire escape was planned for East hall on the
Northern Montana college campus at Havre, WPB would
r‘lease no iron or steel for its construction. So now East hall
1 l ists a fire escape made of wood! At any rate, XMC students
contend they can reach the ground before the escape burns
down.
Clips and
Comments
By MARGUERITE WITTWER
Sailors stationed near the cam
pus and approximately one hun
dred and fifty students attended
the matinee mixer sponsored by
the women’s recreational council
at the University of Washington
recently. The affair, despite the
fact that it was held in the after
noon, was a big success, perhaps
due in part to the strict informality
of the dance—so informal, in fact,
that several coeds took off their
wooden shoes and danced in their
stocking feet. One corner of the
gym was roped off for hep-cats
and hep-chicks who wanted to try
out their best jitterbugging to
the latest boogie-woogie hits.
Private Roy Paul Nelson who
was on the feature staff of the
Emerald for two years and is now
stationed at the University of
Southern California in the USMCR
is writing a feature column for
the “Trojan” under the heading
of “Private Matters”. And Jack
Billings, former editor of the Em
erald, is also down there. He holds
the post of copy reader on the
“Trojan”. Our loss, their gain!
The “Miracle Band of 1942”,
Johnny Long’s 14-piece outfit is
scheduled to play for the 13th an
nual Navy Ball at Northwestern
University . . . But we have one
better, how about that, Owen
Bailey ? How about that, you
GI's?
According to University of Chi
cago sociologists, there is plenty
of reason for optimism among
women who have been trembling
ly surveying the apparent short
age of marriagable men after the
war. The three professors pointed
out recently that casualties so far
have been small and that medical
care of the wounded has developed
to the extent that more lives are
being saved than ever before. Ev
en after making liberal allowance
for casualties, the pedagogues
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Up From UO
By PEGGY OVERLAND
Back in 1939, the student body and faculty of the University re
ceived a sudden jolt of surprise when they heard of the appointment
of Palmer Hoyt as publisher of the Portland Oregonian and the sub
sequent recognition of him by the newspaper world as one of the
youngest publishers in the United States. They were surprised be
cause no one knew so very much about E. Palmer Hoyt, 23, beyond
the fact that he had majored in journalism at the University back
in the post-war years. What they didn’t know about him was his
spectacular rush through copy
leader, general reporter, drama
editor, night city editor, executive
news editor, managing editor,
manager, and publisher in 11 me
teoric years.
And now once again Ep Hoyt
is a prominent name in the minds
of the Oregon people as one of
the rumored candidates for the
Republican senatorial primaries.
And once again everyone is won
dering what there was about Hoyt
that placed him where he is.
It goes back to more than 20
years ago, when E. Palmer Hoyt
returned from World War I, and
unlike so many of those who re
turned with him, determined to
start at the beginning and get
somewhere as fast as he could. He
think there will still lie a man
for every girl in America . . .
Won’t they be either too young or
too old?
Zino Francescatti, violinist ex
traordinary, who appeared in Mc
Arthur Court last year, is now
giving concerts at the University
of Minnesota.
From the Mills College Weekly
comes this poil: The click of knit
ting needles, the creak of the
rocker, and the tick-tock of a
grandmother’s clock were all that
disturbed the soothing silence of
the room. With childish curiosity
little Johnny sat watching the
purls and the stitches.
“Why do you knit, grandma?”
he asked naively.
“Oh, just for the hell of it,” tlio
sweet lady replied.
—And with that commentary on
modern times, we leave you. 30
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By GLORIA MALLOY
Bill Irvin, past-prexy of the Sammy house, has been having
nothing but the nicest things happen to him lately. Stationed at
Camp Adair he has just received a promotion from lieutenant to
captain. But what topped everything off was the placing of a spark
ling diamond on Alpha Phi Dorothy Hays’ finger. Dorothy announced
the engagement Monday night at the house. The wedding date is
set for Feb. 5. Happy landing, Kids!
Ensign Frank Mieuli, Sigma
Nu, of the Merchant Marine, has
probably quite a few hair-raising
stories to tell. His home port is
Seattle which he has returned to
twice, having had boats shot out
from under him each time. Frank
has been assigned to New York
for further duty.
Jack Titus of the Navy, station
ed at Farragut, is home on leave.
He seems to be having the darnd
est time finding somebody to go
skiing with him. What are we off
ered ?
Phil Delt Don Crouch of the
Army air corps was visiting here
last week with fiancee Carolyn
Cordon, Pi Phi. Don is nearing his
graduation and will have his wings
soon. M-m-m—does he ever look
good in that cadet uniform!
Hank Kavanaugh, ’42, is now a
pharmacist’s mate in the navy.
He's stationed in a mobile hospital
in New Zealand. Thinks it won’t
be too long before lie’s home on
furlough.
Another report from one of the
group of boys with those shiny
new bars. After being bumped off
the airplane and after some worri
some moments, Lieutenant Les
Anderson, student-body president
of last year, caught the stream
liner and is now home with his
parents in Portland. It didn't take
long for Theta Terry Watson to
dash off to Portland.
Chi Psi pledge Don Carney,
aviation cadet, is now in primary
training at Raulsin Aeronautical
Academy, Tulan, California. Don
had his C.T.D. at University of
Minnesota. From there he was
sent to Santa Ana for pre-flight.
Jim “Otho” Goodwin of the
Army, just received that first
stripe. Stationed at Camp Rob
erts, Jim is in a chemical warfare
detachment. He likes Camp Rob
erts, except that he feels like a
“wet sponge’’ most of the time.
was a minister’s son but with lit
tle inclination toward the min
istry, and he decided to build on
the fact that he had always want
ed to be a writer. Because the uni
versity offered excellent instruc
tion in journalism, he determined'
to focus his interests and ambi
tions, which were not small, upon
the newspaper world. He did, and
as is often the case, his record at
the Emerald “shack” was nothing
on which to predict a spectacular
success. But Hoyt was preparing
the foundation for a success story
that has seldom been equalled in
journalistic history.
His first position was on the
Pendleton East Oregonian, where
for three years he “learned all the
ropes” in an intensified practice
period that sent him off to the
Portland Oregonian with a zeal
and an earnestness that lasted
beyond his “cub” age. From then
on Hoyt rose rapidly, gaining.a
thorough knowledge and unde
standing of his chosen profession
“the hard way.”
It isn’t just his skill in his own
profession which has resulted in
Hoyt's public acclaim. Besides
filling his position- of publisher
with abiilty, he is also chairman
of the Oregon national savings de
fense bond committee, national
president of Sigma Delta Chi
(national professional journalistic
fraternity), and president of the
Oregon Press conference (1941).
It is his wide interest in civic af
fairs that has fixed attention up
on him and which- will probably
result in his success in everyth^,
he tries, for Palmer Hoyt is a
man who tackles every problem
with vigor and understanding.
His attitude towards his re
sponsibilities as publisher is re
vealed in the stress which he
places upon the duty of the press
lo print unbiased, factual news,
and lie has often declared that i( is
up to the newspapers of the nation
to keep the American people “the
best informed people on the face
of the earth.”
Someone once - summed up
Hoyt's character apd .personality
when he described Win as a “qKTjf
whose geniality made him a Mc
cess as a reporter,, whose educa
tion made him a good copy read
er, whose culture qualified him as
a dramatic critic and whose open
mindedness marks him as a good
editor ...”
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